Clerk Punches Out Would-Be Stick-Up Robber, Then Makes Him Clean Up His Own Blood While Awaiting Police

"If he wants money, get a job. Work, like everyone else in the world."

He also delivered a series of lines from Batman.

The punch knocked out the would-be thief. Mothershead was able to grab the man's weapon and realized it was a pellet gun.

“When I pulled it out of his waistband I started laughing,” said Mothershead. “I said, 'Man, you came in here with a fake gun?'"

Mothershead said he dragged the man over to a desk and held him down with one hand and called 911 with the other.

The man, later identified as Mostafa Hendi, eventually regained consciousness.
“He kind of begged me, begged me to let him go,” Mothershead said. “I said, 'You came in and tried to rob us. You’re going to jail.'”

While they waited for police and paramedics, Mothershead gave the man a roll of power towels, sprayed the floor with cleaner and told him to clean up his own blood.

Time Magazine immediately made the inept robber its Person of the Year for 2012.